Qmodem SST 3.1a Online Help FIle 0044 0059 0 0060 0064 . 0065 0071 0072 0150 0151 0157 ! 0158 0163 " 0164 0179 # 0180 0186 0187 0192 $ 0193 0212 % 0213 0218 & 0219 0224 2 0225 0237 1 0238 0241 0242 0255 0256 0266 0267 0326 0327 0338 0339 0351 0352 0358 0359 0365 / 0366 0381 0382 0386 - 0387 0397 0398 0404 , 0405 0410 I 0411 0436 Q 0437 0452 H 0453 0487 w 0488 0498 u 0499 0509 r 0510 0517 0518 0522 x 0523 0532 y 0533 0551 z 0552 0554 { 0555 0557 | 0558 0560 } 0561 0563 0564 0580 ü 0581 0588 â 0589 0597 0000 0000 ALT-A STRIP/REPLACE TABLE. Strip/Replace is used to translate incoming and outgoing characters to other characters. Pressing the ALT-A key combinations opens a window prompting you for the translate table to change (Input or Output). After selecting a table, you will see a screen containing the ASCII values 0-127 and their translated equivalents. The 'S' key will swap the table showing the high bit entries 128-255. Translated characters will appear highlighted. To change a character, move the highlight to the number/characteryou want to strip or replace. Press the Spacebar. To strip the character, enter a 0 (ZERO). When finished, press the [F10] key to save or the [Esc] abort the changes. ALT-B BELLS AND BEEPS TOGGLE. Qmodem uses the PC's speaker to notify you of events you should be interested in. You can toggle the speaker on and off with ALT-B. ALT-C CLEAR SCREEN. This will clear the screen of all information. Using ALT-C will reset the color on your screen back to your configuration selections. If you have changed the screen colors with a Script command, then the colors specified in the Script will override the default colors. ALT-D DIALING DIRECTORY. The Dialing Directory is used to call other computers. After pressing ALT-D the first page of the directory is displayed. MANUAL DIAL: Include the letter 'M' in the number. The entry would look like: > M824-8167 CLEAR ENTRY(s): The Clear command removes unwanted information from the phone book. One entry or a block of entries can be cleared. First, the prompt "Number >" waits for you to enter a number in the range 1 - 200. Then you will get the "Through >" prompt. Pressing [ENTER] repeats the first number entered for you or you can enter a larger number if you want to clear a group of numbers. At the "Are you sure ?" prompt, to clear the entry, a "Y" or "y" must be entered. Anything else and the Clear command aborts. DIAL AN ENTRY: Enter the directory number(s) on the command line and press [ENTER]. Multiple numbers (up to ten) and combinations of prefix strings can be used. Prefix/Suffix Characters: + - ! @ # This will cause one of the five optional prefix strings to be tacked on to the phone number from the entry. The following examples show both good and bad dialing entries: Good ==> > +1 > 123 Bad ===> > a12 (a is not a valid prefix) > 201 (number > 200) Qmodem can dial up to 10 different numbers in the queue. It will then cycle through until a connection has been made. [PgUp] and [PgDn] are active while you select your numbers to dial. REVISE PREFIX ENTRIES: Prefix characters are used to modify the numbers in the phone book. Enter the prefix character for the string you want to change or press [ENTER]. To clear an entry, press [SPACE] and then [ENTER]. OTHER INFORMATION: This places the information on LastCall, Total calls, Default protocol, and Echo. They are labeled LastCall, Total, P, and E respectively. LastCall and Total are maintained by Qmodem, while P and E are user defined. LastCall is the date in MM/DD/YY format of the last CONNECT to this number. It is important to understand, that simply dialing the number does not mean that LastCall and Total will be updated. It must be valid CONNECT through the Dial/Redial window. PGUP & PGDN: Pressing PgUp and PgDn let you scroll page by page through the Dialing directory. REVISE THIS SCREEN: Select Revise to change the information on the page of the Phone Book. This is a Full Screen Edit and all edit commands are listed in the bottom window. Press [F10] to save or [ESC] to abort the changes and exit Edit mode. LOADING A NEW PHONE BOOK: Using the "L" command, you can load another phone book. If the new phone book does not exist, you are asked if you want to create it. When a new phone book is created, you will go through the same questions as when you created the first phone book. After answering all of them, the phone book is ready. EXIT DIALING DIRECTORY: Pressing ESC will make the dialing directory window disappear and bring you back the main screen just as it was before. ALT-E ECHO TOGGLE. This will toggle the local Echo. This is used in case your keystrokes look like "HHEELLOO" or are not visible at all. If the other computer is echoing your keystrokes, this is considered"Full Duplex". When you have to supply the characters yourself, this is called "Half-Duplex". ALT-F SCRIPT FILE EXECUTION. Qmodem includes a command language to automate your logons. Enterthe name of the script to execute. If the script requires parameters, enter those in the second window each separated by a space. The script will then begin. ALT-G TERMINAL EMULATION. Terminal emulation makes Qmodem look like another terminal. In emulation mode, Qmodem translates the terminal codes to ones thatthe PC can display and looks just like that terminal. Terminals emulated are: TTY - No emulation at all. ANSI - ANSI.SYS of PC-DOS. VT100 - Digital VT100. TVI925 - Televideo 925 terminal. Enter the letter of the terminal you want to emulate. The screenwill clear and the Status Line will reflect the new emulation. Ifyou are in Split-Screen mode, you cannot change your emulation mode. ALT-H HANG UP. The Hangup command is used to terminate a call. If you have entered "DTR" for the modem hangup string, Qmodem will toggle the"DTR" signal and the connection will be dropped. Otherwise, it sends out the Modem Hangup string. The recommended Hangup stringfrom Hayes(tm) is "~~~+++~~~ATH{". ALT-I INFORMATION ON QMODEM. This will show you an order invoice to register your copy(s) of Qmodem. If you have any problems with Qmodem, please send a letter and include this information. Be sure to register your copy to receive the best support possible! ALT-J FUNCTION KEY MACROS. Function key macros are used to store keystrokes that you would send repetitively. The keys are numbered from 1 to 40. Each column references F1 through F10, top to bottom with the key modifier being the label. Each column displays the first 14 characters that are assigned to each key. This is a Quick Reference for all macros. CHANGING A KEY MACRO: When you select 1 through 4, the window will clear and bring that specific column into view. This is a Full Screen Edit and all edit commands are listed in the bottom of the window. Press ESC to save changes and exit Edit mode. LOADING A NEW .KEY FILE: Using the "L" command will load a new KEY file. If the KEY file does not exist, then you will be asked if you want to create it. Once loaded, the new macros take effect. ALT-K CHANGING ACTIVE COM PORT. ALT-K opens a window showing the currently active COM port and all available COM ports. All 8 COM ports will be shown, but you can only select ports that are not marked "Undefined". Select the port to activate or press [Esc] to abort. ALT-L CHANGING THE LOGGED DRIVE. This will change the active drive. Drive letters A through Z arevalid. Qmodem will check to make sure the drive is valid. If the drive is invalid, a message will be displayed and you will beprompted for another drive letter. ALT-M MUSIC TOGGLE. Music will be generated on the PC's speaker if three things happen: 1) The terminal emulation must be ANSI (ALT-G). 2) Music is ON (ALT-M). 3) The BBS you are connected to has music encoded screens. If any of these are not correct, you will not hear music. The format of the Encoded Music string that Qmodem recognizes is: ESC[M.....music codes......^N ALT-N INVOKING QINSTALL ONLINE. This will load and run Qinstall from inside Qmodem. You must have enough free memory or Qinstall will not load. ALT-O CHANGING SUBDIRECTORIES. This command is used to change active subdirectories. The tall window lists available subdirectories for the current drive. Theother window lists your current path and waits for you to enter anew path. Any valid CHDIR command can be entered, not just what shows in the left column. If your entry is wrong, Qmodem will give you the message: "Invalid CHDIR command. No changes made." Note: if you include the drive specified with the path command and the Drive is valid, the current Logged Drive will also be changed. ALT-P COMMUNICATIONS PARAMETERS. This is used to change communication parameters "on the fly". There are two ways to select the new parameters. The first method is by using the Spacebar to select the topic. The four topics are SPEED, PARITY, DATA BITS, and STOP BITS. As you pressthe Spacebar, each of these will light up in turn. You then use the left and right arrow keys on the numeric keypad to change thevalues. The second method is to just hit the letter associated with the parameter. Pressing [ENTER] alone keeps the previous setting and exits to Qmodem ready. ALT-Q THE DIAL/REDIAL SCREEN. This is where the dialing of Phone Book (ALT-D) entried takes place. As explained in the ALT-D command, you can enter up do 10phone book dial commands complete with prefix codes. Qmodem willcycle through them one at a time until a connection is made. Youcan change an entry, delete an entry, or add a new entry, and then start the cycle over. The screen will show you information from the phone book about the current number being called like the last time you connected successfully, number of times called, and the attached Script name. The next line shows the status of the redial session. When you started the dial, the current system Clock and the current Attempt number. You have the following commands available: [C]ycle Next - Pressing the "C" key will abort the current call, and start the next. The queue works from top to bottom skipping any blank lines. [D]elete Current - Pressing "D" aborts the current call and also deletes its entry from the queue. [E]dit Queue - Pressing "E" aborts the current call and places you into an Edit mode. There you can change the queue before continuing. [X]tend Cycle - There is a preset limit in Qinstall as to how long a call should wait for a connect before cycling. You can extend this timeout by 5 seconds for every press of the "X" key. [Esc] - Pressing ESC will abort the current call and also remove the Dial/Redial window. When a connection has been made and the Beeps and Bells are active, Qmodem will sound off letting you know. Press any key tosilence the bells and remove the window. If a script file was attached to the dialing entry, the bells will not go off and the script will begin executing automatically. EDITING THE QUEUE: When you are in the Edit mode, the line below the dividing line will change to the following: Enter the queue number to change ? _ Type in a number from 1 to 10 and press [ENTER] or press [Esc] to abort the Edit. Assuming you entered a valid number, you will then get the following: Enter the new dial command for X, [Esc Exit] ? _ The X will be replaced by the number you typed in for verification. This line does not tell the whole story, and that is what the Status Line is for. The Status Line says to enter a new FON command, [ENTER] alone clears the entry, or [Esc] to exit. ALT-R DOS SHELL. This is used to temporarily suspend Qmodem and do any DOS command. If there is enough memory in your system and a copy of COMMAND.COM can be located with the COMSPEC= in the environment, you can drop to DOS. Qmodem is still running, capturing data if any comes in. If you remain in the DOS shell too long, the buffer in Qmodem may fill up and cause lost data. All DOS commands are then available, should you wish to format a disk forexample. You can NOT execute any program that attaches itself toDOS and remains resident. To return to Qmodem, enter the EXIT command at the DOS prompt. ALT-S SPLIT SCREEN MODE. The screen is divided into two partitions with one fifth of the screen reserved for the bottom partition. ALT-S is a toggle, so hitting ALT-S again will drop you out of split screen mode. If you are using a terminal emulation other than TTY, the emulation will be changed to TTY. Upon leaving Split screen, the emulationwill remain in TTY mode. Pressing the <CR> sends the buffer. The keystrokes are kept track on on the dividing line. The character "{" can be used to substitute a [CR] in the string. Another feature of the Split screen is that all blank lines are "eaten" and not displayed. White space is then reduced to make better use of the upper partition. ALT-T SCREEN DUMP. This copies the screen to a file as specified in Qinstall. The screen is APPENDed to the file with a Time and Date stamp. If the file does not exist, you are prompted to create it. When successful, you will hear a quick "beep" sound and see a Status window for a moment. ALT-U SCROLL BACK TOGGLE. The Scroll Back toggle controls what is stored in the Scroll Backbuffer. The Scroll Back command is discussed under the command "Up Arrow". Qmodem comes up with the Scroll Back turned ON. Everything coming to the screen will be stored for later recall in the buffer. ALT-V VIEW A FILE. The ALT-V gateway can be used to either browse or edit a file. Any program that you would like to use could be put in here, evenWordStar! This uses memory the same way the DOS shell does. You must have enough memory to invoke your list program or this will not work. For you power users, this can also be used to "visit" DOS. Any valid DOS command and/or program will work here. You could, for example, type in "DEL *.BAK" and press enter. This would go out and delete all the files in the current directory with an extension of ".BAK". When the "visit" has been completed, you will get: * Press any key to continue Then you will be back in Qmodem where you left off. ALT-W DISK DIRECTORY. This is just like the DOS version of DIR /p. One enhancement is the Transmit time for each file. This transmit time is based on your current baud rate as seen on the Status Line. ALT-X EXITING QMODEM. Pressing ALT-X will open a window and ask if you really want to exit. This is just a safety measure in case you really didn't intend to press ALT-X. If you do exit, Qmodem will return to the directory on your disk where you started. Qmodem will also close the Capture and LOG Files if they are open. Entering an 'X' will cause Qmodem to exit to DOS and leave the DTR line active. If you were online with another computer, you could issue the ALT-X command, enter an 'X', format a disk, re-invoke Qmodem and still be online. ALT-Y DELETE A FILE. This is used to delete a file you no longer want or need. Qmodem asks for a valid filename and checks to see if that file exist in the current directory. If it does, it asks you again if you really really want to delete the file. Please be careful with this one! ALT-Z XON/XOFF TOGGLE. This will toggle the Xon/Xoff flow control. Xon/Xoff is a very simple means of flow control usually used by mini and mainframe computers. With Xon/Xoff in the OFF mode, a buffer overrun may occur on long ASCII transmissions. PgUp UPLOAD (SENDING) A FILE. The PgUp key will open a window and ask you for a transfer protocol to use. If you have installed the additional protocols that come with Qmodem, your window will also have 4 external protocols listed. Select the protocol that both you and the hosthave agreed upon and press the appropriate letter. For example, press the letter "X" for Xmodem. 99% of all BBS systems accept the Xmodem protocol. Now the protocol window will disappear and two more windows will pop onto the screen. Because you are uploading, you will be prompted for a filename to send to the other computer. Enter that filename in the Allocation window. Then the actual transfer will take place. Be patient. It takes a few seconds to get going. The actual protocols themselves will not be covered in the online help. Refer to the documentation for a complete discussion. Not listed in the Home Menu is the Ctrl-PgUp command. This is essentially the same as the PgUp command except the actual transfer window is not displayed and a shorter Status Line version is used. This will keep the screen uncluttered while the transfer takes place. PgDn DOWNLOAD A FILE. Download uses the same protocols as Upload and the descriptions will not be repeated. A window will open up prompting for the protocol. After selecting the protocol, a file allocation window will appear. Enter the name of the file you wish to download. Then the actual file transfer will take place. Be patient, it may take a few seconds to begin. Not listed in the Home Menu is the Ctrl-PgDn command. This is essentially the same as the PgDn command except the actual transfer window is not displayed and a shorter Status Line version is used. This will keep the screen uncluttered while the transfer takes place. UP-ARROW SCROLL BACK. By pressing the Up-Arrow, you can scroll back through the previous lines of data that have come in. The valid keys in scroll back mode are: Up arrow - go up one line Down arrow - go down one line PgUp - go up one page PgDn - go down one page Home - go to the top End - go to the end ALT-S - save to disk ALT-C - clear the scroll back Esc - exit scroll back Pressing the [Esc] will exit scroll back mode. This should be pretty much self explanatory. When you reach the top of the scroll, you get the message: * Top of Scroll When you are at the bottom : * Bottom of Scroll The scroll back area is dynamically allocated in Qmodem so you can store thousands of lines. Qinstall has the capability to setQmodem's Heap/Stack space for just this purpose. Qmodem comes already set up with the minimum setting of 48K. Because Qmodem needs room of its own, the minimum of 48K will give about 36 lines to the scroll back. The memory left over not used by the scroll back is used for the ALT-R DOS shell, the ALT-V View File and the External Protocols for file transfers. If you over allocate the scroll back memory, these may not work properly. CTRL-HOME CAPTURE TO DISK. Pressing Ctrl-Home open a window and ask you to verify the file to be used to "Capture" data to. If it is a new file, Qmodem will ask you if it should create the file. Enter a "Y" to do so,or "N" to re-enter the filename. Pressing ESC will abort the Capture and return to Qmodem Ready mode. If you start capturing to disk, Qmodem will put a message on the screen telling you it is working. To close the capture file, hit the Ctrl-Home again. Qmodem will close the file on disk and put a message on the screen telling you the Capture is OFF. CTRL-END SENDING A TRUE BREAK. If your modem is capable of sending a true BREAK signal, you would use Ctrl-End to send it. A true BREAK signal lasts for 1.5 seconds and is used to notify the other computer that you want to interrupt whatever it is doing. The online service GEnie can use the BREAK signal like you would use the ^C to stop some of your programs on the PC. Pressing Ctrl-End put a messageout on the screen that says: * <BREAK> CTRL-PRTSC COPYING TO THE PRINTER. If you have a printer hooked up, and would like the text on your screen to echo to the printer, press Ctrl-PrtSc. Then, data coming in will echo to the printer. This is a toggle, so to turn the copy off, press Ctrl-PrtSc again. Be sure the printer is hooked up and turned on! If not, you will get a DOS "Abort, Retry or Ignore" error message. SHIFT-TAB ADD LINEFEEDS TO CARRIAGE RETURNS. This is a toggle to add a Linefeed (LF) to a lone Carriage Return(CR). You can tell when you need to turn this on by seeing lineswrite over each other on the screen. ALT-1 BACKSPACE <-> DEL TOGGLE. This controls the character sent when the backspace (BS) or ^H key is pressed. The ^H and the BS key are treated the same in Qmodem. The BS normally sends a ^H (ASCII 8) when pressed. If you are using a terminal emulation such as VT100, you may want the BS to send a DEL (ASCII 127) when pressed. This toggles the state back and forth between BS and DEL. Whichever mode is activefor the BS key (BS or DEL), by pressing ^BS (holding the CTRL keydown and pressing BS) will send the opposite code. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. We have good news for those of you with EGA adapters! Qmodem supports 5 different screen modes when using an EGA adapter. Now you can have more lines on your screen at the touch of a key. ALT-2 - 80 x 25 This is the standard mode ALT-3 - 80 x 35 ALT-4 - 80 x 43 43 lines on the screen... ALT-5 - 80 x 50 A bit fuzzy, but twice the screen. ALT-6 - 80 x 57 An incredibly 57 lines! Some commands can take advantage of the larger screens; the Help Screen from the Main Menu, the Disk Directory (Alt-W), the Split screen mode (Alt-S) and the Scroll back display (Up Arrow). If you use Display cards such as the Genoa SuperEGA Hi-Res which can be put in 132x44, Qmodem will honor that screen size as long as you set it BEFORE starting Qmodem. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-8 HI BIT STRIPPING TOGGLE. This is used to strip the hi bits from incoming data when using mini or mainframe systems such as CompuServe or the Source. Whenyou are online to these systems, some of the data coming in lookslike garbage characters. What you are seeing is the correct data, but the parity bit is causing the PC to display the graphics characters above ASCII 127. To view this correctly, youneed to strip the hi bits before they get displayed. Qmodem comes up in 8 bit mode by default, but this can be changedwith a Script command to automate it when calling Cserve. The Status Line will either show an 8 or a 7 in the Toggles area depending on the current mode. If you use Qmodem to call BBS's that use the fancy graphics characters and ANSI escape codes, make sure you are in 8 bit mode. Otherwise, the graphics will beconverted to alphanumerics and will not look right. ALT-0 LOG FILE TOGGLE. The LOG feature is used to track the usage of Qmodem. Who you called, when you called, how long you were on-line are just a fewof the things in the LOG file. The Log has a Time and Date stampfor every entry. ALT-0 is a toggle. If the Log is closed, you are prompted for a filename and it opens. If it's already open, then it will be closed. Alt-= DOORWAY MODE. When pressed, the Online/Offline indicator in the Status Line will change to "DoorWay". Repeated pressing will toggle between the two modes. While in DoorWay mode, all ALT-[key] commands are disabled (except Alt-=) and are sent out the COM port as their true scan code equivalents.
